Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-529) and index

Part one : Early culture and art : the stone age, the bronze age, and the early iron age -- Urban civilization and the Indus Valley ; neolithic and Pre-Shang China ; Ban Chieng culture -- Chinese art from the Shang through the middle Zhou period -- The late Zhou period -- The growth and expansion of early Chinese culture through the Han Dynasty ; Korea and Japan -- Part two : International influence of Buddhist art -- Early Buddhist art in India -- The international Gupta style -- The expansion of Buddhist art to the Far East -- Part three : The rise of national Indian and Indonesian styles -- Early Hindu art in India -- Early Medieval Hindu art the southern styles -- Later Medieval Hindu art -- The Medieval art of Southeast Asia and Indonesia -- Part four : Chinese and Japanese national styles and the interplay of Chinese and Japanese art -- The rise of the arts of painting and ceramics in China -- The beginnings of developed Japanese art styles -- Japanese art of the Kamakura period -- Chinese painting and ceramics of the Song Dynasty -- Japanese art of the Ashikaga period -- Later Chinese art : the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties -- Later Japanese art : the Momoyama and Tokugawa periods

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